Porcelain -- Collectors and collecting -- United States; Pottery -- Collectors and collecting -- United States
Two prints representing scenes of timber-rolling and ship-building,
intended to commemorate the era of great prosperity in Salem ship-yards.
They are accompanied with these verses:
“Our mountains are covered with Imperial Oak
Whose Roots like our Liberties Ages have Nourish’d;
But long e’er our Nation submits to the Yoke
Not a Tree shall be left on the Field where it flourish’d.
“Should invasion impend, Every Tree would Descend
From the Hilltops they shaded Our Shores to defend;
For ne’er shall the Sons of Columbia be slaves
While the Earth bears a Plant, or the Sea rolls its waves.”
The finest specimen of Liverpool ware bearing these prints and verses is
a great punch-bowl, eighteen inches in diameter, in the rooms of the
East India Marine Society in Salem. It also bears on the inside of the
bowl, in large letters, the name of the Society and other inscriptions,
and the date 1800. Pitchers also are found with these prints, and also
with the spread eagle with the mark “Herculaneum Pottery, Liverpool.”
One may be seen in the rooms of the Bostonian Society in the old
State-House, Boston. These prints are perhaps the most pretentious of
any made for commercial interests in this country, and are usually very
clear and good.
97. Plan of City of Washington. Liverpool.
A Liverpool pitcher with black print of a map between two female
figures. Inscription, “Plan of the City of Washington.” On reverse is
Washington design No. 13.
98. Emblem of America. Liverpool.
A Liverpool pitcher with a coarse black print of a female figure holding
the American flag, and facing two clumsily-drawn, stumpy Indians. In the
background a group of oval portraits labelled Raleigh, Columbus,
Franklin, Washington, etc. The legend “An Emblem of America.” On the
reverse a Washington design.
99. Crooked Town of Boston. Liverpool.
A Liverpool pitcher printed in black, red, or green, with inscription,
“Success to the Crooked but Interesting Town of Boston.” On the other
side a long ballad, varying on different pitchers.
100. Liberty. Liverpool.
A Liverpool pitcher with black print. Design, a seated figure of Liberty
with the legend, “May Columbia Flourish.”
101. Infant Navy. Naval Pitcher.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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